It’s Friday and the weekend is looming.

Behind on many jobs that I need to get done around the house, particularly pressing is replacing the felt roof on my shed. It blew off in the summer and I tacked it back. I now have the materials but the shed is in a corner of the garden, with a wall tightly around it. I think the original owners built it and then moved it into place. God only knows how I’m going to get around the roof to get the felt all nailed down.

Anyway, it must be done.

So, sure enough, the weather this weekend is due to be… rainy. As it is right now. Actually, no, right now it’s lashing it down with rain and there’s lightning occasionally flashing through the windows. Pah. Typical. It’s got to be done before the winter, though.

Meantime, my mate Luis has arranged for us to go a-boozing tonight. I hope the hangover isn’t too bad or I won’t get anything done this weekend!

They tell us to make our online banking access more secure, but remembering yet another password is forever becoming a more and more tricky business.

Personally, I prefer to use software as a password manager. An Excel spreadsheet is one solution, but it’s not a very good one.

I have been using Password Safe. But call me shallow, but I didn’t get along with the look of it. It did, though, do everything I wanted - an ability to save my encrypted passwords onto a removable drive (so I can use it at work and home), being able to categorise my passwords into distinct groups and the ability to generate strong random passwords (you may as well make them tough if something like this is going to go to the trouble of remembering it for you).

Today I’ve come across an alternative and it’s a cracker - KeePass. It even let me port password from Password Safe into it (although I had to downgrade my copy of Password Safe from 3.02 to 2.16 before I could do this).

What both have in common is that they’re open source and totally free. You can’t argue with that.

Right now more than 8,000 people in the UK are in desperate need of an organ transplant. Around 400 of them will die this year and many more will lose their lives before they are registered for a transplant.

But you can help.

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As an IT geek it’s my duty, I feel, to drink coffee and to do so from anything other than your standard porcelain mug.

So, I use a one-cup Cafetiere. It’s plastic so looks and feels naff but I’ve convinced at least 2 people at work to buy them, and many others are envious of the coffee aromas drifting from my desk. It quite literally is a proper cafetiere - you fill it with “proper” ground coffee, leave hot water swishing about inside it for 10 minutes and then press the plunger.

And a bargain at only £5, from Cookware Online, amongst other places. You know you want one.

Ok, I was wrong. The wedding wasn’t a struggle. But then I said I wasn’t going to drink, and I did. Conversation flowed, laughs were had and it all turned out well in the end.

And any best mans speech that can start, “I’ll admit to being a bit nervous. This isn’t the first time today I’ve got up from a warm seat with some paper in my hand”, deserves a salute. Rob, I salute you.

And the groom turned up in a bright red Ferrari.